Chapter 236 - 184: Willing to be a Concubine, the Treasure Medicine Ripens Again
Chapter 236: Chapter 184: Willing to be a Concubine, the Treasure Medicine Ripens Again
But Lin Changheng felt nothing, thanks to the "Clear Heart" effect from his Last Fifth Layer Origin Treasure Seed.
It was thoroughly suppressed.
Just as Lin Changheng figured this out, Yan Mingyi approached, holding a full wine cup. Clad in a green dress, her figure was slender and graceful. Youthful and beautiful, she was a delectable sight.
She gave off the distinct impression of the girl next door, all grown up.
"Brother Lin..."
A murmur escaped her lips.
Lin Changheng simply watched, listening intently.
Downing another cup for courage, she slammed the cup on the table and threw her delicate body into Lin Changheng’s arms.
A pair of slender hands wrapped tightly around his back, as if terrified he would escape.
Murmurs escaped her lips again, sounding like a cross between sleep-talking and a tearful plea.
Lin Changheng understood the core of her words perfectly. She was lonely, with no one to rely on. Now that she had met a good man, she couldn’t let the opportunity pass. She begged Brother Lin to accept her, saying she was willing to serve and accompany him as a concubine.
"Sigh..."
With a sigh, Lin Changheng concluded that the Spirit Wine’s "passion-stirring, desire-inducing" effect was taking hold.
When a man and a woman spend so much time alone together, it’s inevitable for feelings to get confused. And while he was old, he still looked no older than twenty-four or twenty-five, so her reaction was understandable.
But how could he take the words of a drunk person seriously?
Although Lin Changheng never claimed to be a perfect gentleman, and it was only human to have certain thoughts when a beauty threw herself into his arms, he would never take advantage of someone while they were drunk.
He let Yan Mingyi continue to hold him, her unique, faint fragrance tickling his nose. With a calm heart, Lin Changheng reached out, took her pale wrist, and sent a gentle stream of Magical Power flowing into her body to flush out the wine’s effects.
This "passion-stirring, desire-inducing" effect couldn’t be dispelled directly, but since it relied on the accumulated power of the Spirit Wine, all he had to do was neutralize the alcohol itself.
HUUUH...
In just a moment, eighty percent of the alcoholic haze and scent around Yan Mingyi had vanished.
The remaining twenty percent was also rapidly fading.
"Mingyi?"
Lin Changheng withdrew his hand and patted her fragrant shoulder, signaling to the woman—who should no longer be under the Spirit Wine’s influence—that she could let go of him.
However, the Female Cultivator in his arms didn’t budge. She neither let go nor responded.
’Did she fall asleep? Or is she just too embarrassed to face me?’
Lin Changheng looked down into his arms. The flush on Yan Mingyi’s face had faded, but her beautiful eyes remained tightly shut, and her hands hadn’t loosened their grip.
He simply scooped up the woman, who was as light as a swallow, stood up, and carried her to her room.
Just as he was about to lay her down, a soft female voice suddenly spoke from his arms:
"Brother Lin, do you truly believe that what I just said wasn’t from the heart, but merely drunken words?"
Lin Changheng, who was bent over, froze. His eyes darted toward the source of the voice.
He saw Yan Mingyi lightly biting her red lip, her bright eyes now open and staring fixedly at him.
The emotion in them was no longer concealed.
She was perfectly clear-headed.
They locked eyes for a long moment.
Lin Changheng suddenly spoke. "Are you sure?"
Yan Mingyi’s gaze was resolute as she declared, "Mingyi is willing to be your concubine, to serve and accompany Brother Lin forever!"
Lin Changheng was filled with a mix of emotions. In the Cultivation Realm, a concubine, unlike a daoist partner or a proper wife, had no official standing.
Yet this woman was willing...
As these thoughts ran through his mind, he lifted Yan Mingyi from where he had half-laid her on the bed and pulled her back into his embrace.
His decisive action was his answer.
"Brother Lin..."
Feeling his powerful response and the heart beating against hers, Yan Mingyi grew bold, wrapped her arms around the back of Lin Changheng’s neck, and initiated a kiss.
’No wonder the ancients always spoke of wine and women in the same breath. First comes the wine, then the pleasure. The two are truly inseparable.’
Lin Changheng couldn’t help but muse on this as he savored her soft lips.
Next, her green dress slipped to the floor, revealing a long, fair neck, smooth, pale shoulders, and a waist just right for grasping...
All of it was revealed in the flickering candlelight.
All his stray thoughts vanished.
At some point, the Jade Hairpin in Yan Mingyi’s hair fell loose, and her Cyan Silk tresses cascaded like a waterfall. The candlelight trembled violently, casting undulating shadows on the gauze bed-curtains, like two Spirit Woods with their branches intertwined beneath the moon.
Outside the courtyard, the night wind howled, blowing a dark cloud across the moon.
DRIP, DROP, DRIP, DROP... The rain fell for a long, long time.
It didn’t slowly cease until the morning sun began to rise, the clouds scattering as the sky cleared.
...
The night’s conquest did not affect Lin Changheng’s spirit or Energy. He rose as usual, stepped into his Alchemy Room, and began his Alchemy.
He left behind a single figure on the bed, sleeping soundlessly.
Yan Mingyi was utterly exhausted. If not for her Sixth Layer Qi Cultivation, she likely would have been conquered to the point of fainting.
The overwhelming scene from her memories had now become a profound reality.
Before long, she slowly awoke, a blush creeping onto her pretty face. ’If not for my boldness and determination yesterday,’ she thought, ’this might never have happened in my entire life.’
’This was probably the best decision I’ve ever made! The best risk I’ve ever taken!’
Enduring the unfamiliar ache in her body, she dressed, rested for a moment, and then entered her Puppet Room to delve into her study of the Puppet Dao.
The woman was exceptionally diligent. She had a new goal: to catch up to Brother Lin.
She had a faint inkling that with Brother Lin’s Talent, she would sooner or later be left in the dust, unable to walk with him to the very end. ’But if I don’t give it my all,’ she thought, ’how will I ever know what might have been?’
...
Time flew like an arrow, the days and months like a weaver’s shuttle.
「Another year passed.」
This year, Lin Changheng officially turned seventy.
But his appearance remained youthful, showing not the slightest sign of his age.
At this moment, Lin Changheng stood in his Spirit Medicine Garden. He ceased circulating the True Intent of his Rongsheng Divine Abilities and gazed at the Nine-leaf Purple Ginseng, which was showing the first signs of a miraculous phenomenon.
The Treasure Plant’s nine palm-sized purple leaves were gently unfurled. Silvery-white Spiritual Light flowed through their veins, looking like a miniature galaxy at first glance.
A dense purple mist enveloped the plant—a sure sign of its maturity.
It was ready to be used as an ingredient for refining a Foundation Establishment Pill.
To Lin Changheng, possessing this Treasure Plant was equivalent to possessing a Foundation Establishment Pill, which represented a value of at least twenty-five thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones!
Without hesitation, he began to harvest it, his movements extremely skilled.
He carefully placed the usable parts into a Spirit-Sealing Wooden Box, leaving only the Roots behind in the Spirit Field.
Normally, these Roots could no longer grow. Even if left in the Spirit Field, they would gradually wither away.
But in Lin Changheng’s hands, things were different.
’Tomorrow night, I’ll come back and use the True Intent of my Rongsheng Divine Abilities to restore these roots to life. Then they can grow again.’
Satisfied, Lin Changheng glanced at the other Tier Two Treasure Plants in the Spirit Field before turning to leave.
Clearly, one year wasn’t enough time for them to undergo any significant changes.
When he returned, Yan Mingyi had already prepared the medicinal bath for his Body Refining.
The liquid in the tub, a dark green that was nearly black, was already prepared.
Since Yan Mingyi had become Lin Changheng’s concubine, he had revealed a few things to her that didn’t involve his core secrets.
For example, his Body Refining Cultivation Technique and the formulas for its supplementary Materials.
He even had her start learning some of it, so that when she reached the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation, she could also attempt to temper her body.
Of course, Yan Mingyi was still forbidden from entering the Spirit Medicine Garden he had just come from.
Although she had expressed her curiosity, after Lin Changheng had refused her with a solemn expression, she never mentioned it again.
It was this very obedience and sensibility that made Lin Changheng dote on her all the more.
He wasn’t stingy with giving her resources, either.
After all, if Lin Changheng was so generous with the Black Armored Earth Turtle he was raising, he certainly wouldn’t be stingy with his own woman.
And as a Tier Two Lower Grade Alchemist, anything he casually passed on to her was more than enough for her needs.
"Brother Lin, let me help you change for your bath." Yan Mingyi glided forward, her movements graceful and practiced, no longer possessing the shyness she once had.
"Alright."
Lin Changheng nodded and spread his arms.
Standing together, they looked like a perfect match to any outsider.
No one could have guessed the age gap between them, which was large enough for a mortal couple to have raised two generations of descendants.
...
「Less than ten days later.」
A Foundation Establishment Cultivator arrived in a great hurry.
"Alchemist Lin, I finally have news."
The visitor was an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Luofeng Forest Fan Family.
He had dark skin and plain features.
Lin Changheng picked up his teacup and blew on it nonchalantly, speaking in a cool, detached tone, "I sent word nearly nine days ago, Fellow Daoist, yet you’ve only just arrived. That doesn’t quite match the urgency you claimed to have. It almost made me think your esteemed family had hired someone else."